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Veteran suicide: How to help military members with mental health, PTSD
Randy McDonald once oversaw the manufacturing of precision-guided munitions and cluster bombs at Minot Air Force Base, sometimes working alongside some of the highest-ranking airmen. Now in his mid-40s, he had to make sure 10,000 items sat where they should on sprawling shelves at Home Depot: tools, thermostats, humidifiers, duct tape — you name it. He missed the camaraderie and brotherhood that had defined the first half of his life. Now, it felt like his sole goal was unloading enough retail from semi trucks to earn a bonus check.
He felt like a burden. He thought about ending his life and leaving behind his two daughters and his wife. Leaving behind the three-bedroom stucco house where they lived in Minot, North Dakota, and its brick-lined, arched front door. He came up with a plan. He knew the date, the time and the place, and how he was going to die by suicide. But then, a small deviation in his well-oiled journey snapped him out of his funk. "What the hell are you doing?" he thought.
He realized how close to the abyss he was teetering, and this realization set him out on a new journey. What if he could reach out to other veterans before it was too late, he wondered, even those in the far reaches of North Dakota?
He knew he was hardly the first veteran to think about suicide. Across remote areas of the country, from Pennsylvania to Montana, from Wyoming to Nevada, thousands are going through the same trepidations. They face a fragmented social fabric, a byzantine path to receiving health care and a pervasive stigma surrounding mental health. This, combined with a dearth of community resources, at-times crippling isolation and a gun-friendly culture, makes rural veterans 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole. These former servicemen die by suicide at such a high rate, in fact, that they're driving overall self-inflicted deaths in rural counties.
Deep in the Intermountain West, mental health researchers have developed a program they say could help stem this tide of veteran suicides. It hinges on a radical shift of paradigm: What if people like McDonald — not just mental health experts — were the first line of defense against suicide? What if it took a veteran to save a veteran?
Twenty-two. The numerals appear in white font on black rubber band bracelets worn by veterans — the estimated number of veterans who die by suicide every day. That figure has fluctuated over the years and now probably stands at around 17. But this issue has afflicted the U.S. military at least since the 19th century.
Rural veterans are 20% more likely to die by suicide than veterans as a whole.
While suicide was deemed morally repugnant at the time, many Civil War veterans traumatized by the war still took their own lives. Some of the soldiers who'd survived World War I didn't live much longer after the conflict ended: In 1921, a former colonel in the Army's Medical Corps testified in front of a Senate committee that 400 veterans had taken their lives in New York state just the previous year. And about 9,000 Vietnam War veterans are estimated to have died by suicide from the time of discharge through the 1980s.
The trauma associated with combat exposure has long been blamed for veteran suicide. It was once referred to as "nostalgia," then as "shell shock" during World War I, and as PTSD after Vietnam.
By the time James Peake, an Army doctor who'd served in Vietnam, was appointed as the U.S. Army Surgeon General in 2000, the crisis was well documented. That's why when the U.S. invaded Iraq, Peake made sure to send mental health experts to the front lines to "drive mental health (treatment) deeper into the units," he says.
Researchers think veterans could hold the key to preventing suicides among their peers.
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The experts found that not much had changed since the Civil War. A number of soldiers who went to Iraq and Afghanistan were diagnosed with Post-traumatic stress disorder and reported heavy drinking, among other stresses and disorders. What was different was the avalanche of deaths the post 9/11 era ushered in.
One Boston University study found that 30,177 active-duty personnel and veterans have died by suicide on American soil since the Twin Towers fell, compared to 7,057 service members killed in war theaters. There's no one explanation for that escalation. Experts point to the growing military-civilian divide, society's scorn for interventions in the Middle East and the military's failure to adequately prepare its members for civilian life. Some suggest that armed forces now attract a certain profile of people more likely to have experienced psychological trauma before. And then there's the trauma many experience while serving, whether deployed or not, including sexual assaults and physical abuses.
Here's something else that changed. For a long time veterans bore the responsibility for suicide, which was seen as a sign of moral weakness. But the onus is now on the government for failing to care for its veterans. When Peake, then VA secretary, was called in to testify before the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs in 2008, lawmakers made clear something needed to be done. "We should all be angry at what has gone on here," one admonished him. Veteran suicide has since become one of the few nonpartisan issues on Capitol Hill. The last three VA secretaries all made it their top clinical priority, and Congress in recent years considered at least five bills or initiatives aiming to tackle suicides.
And yet, a rising number of veterans took their lives during the past decade, with the exception of a small dip between 2018 and 2019. Despite making up only 8.3% of adults, veterans today represent 14.3% of all suicides, according to the VA.
North Dakota hasn't been immune to this national trend. Veterans now make up less than 6% of the state's population but accounted for 17% of suicides in 2020. McDonald came perilously close to being one of them.
A burly man with kind eyes and a light brown beard, McDonald grew up in the college town of Morgantown, West Virginia, a Rust Belt community nestled in the Appalachian foothills, and the home of West Virginia University. It stands a few miles from the Pittsburgh coal seam and, at the height of the coal mining boom, men waiting to board buses for one of the 60 coal mines outside of town were a common sight. McDonald saw firsthand what mining will do to you. When his uncle died at 76, his lungs had soaked up about as much coal dust as tar from the three packs of cigarettes he smoked a day.
McDonald wasn't interested in suffering the same fate. He wasn't much interested in college, either, he says from a bakery in downtown Minot. He's brought lunch — a couple of turkey sandwiches and a bag of onion chips — but he barely touches it.
He says he did what many young men in rural areas do when faced with limited options. He walked into a military recruiting office and joined the Air Force. After training in San Antonio, he was put on the maintenance career track and was sent to Minot Air Force Base for three years. Now married, he was deployed to Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, where his first daughter was born. He went on to Virginia to work in a bomb shop at Langley Air Force Base, before spending a few more years in Minot, this time supervising one. With his wife, he bought a house a few blocks from the Souris River, which flows through Minot. After stints in Guam and Turkey, he retired from the Air Force in 2013. He'd seen the world and had had a rich career serving with men he admired. What else could he ask for?
He got a job at Nash Finch, a wholesale food distributor. It was an uneasy transition from manufacturing bombs, to say the least. He'd been managing 70 people in Minot Air Force base, having in effect the power of "life and death" over people in far-flung countries like Iraq and Afghanistan, often the bombs' final destinations. Now, he had to make sure grocery stores got their extra case of soda, or that the ice cream wasn't too soft. He grew agitated, seemingly unable to hold on to a job for more than a year or two.
None gave him the same pride and satisfaction he'd felt as an airman. He hit a new low when he found himself working the night shift at a Home Depot, missing out on evenings with friends. The long winters only compounded a growing sense of isolation. He all but gave up painting, a long-held passion, instead spending his days watching TV or reading books. "Those are the times where you really start sinking down into your negative thoughts," McDonald says.
One memory especially sticks out. He sees himself walking down the street outside of Incirlik Air Base in southern Turkey, where he's been stationed for a few months. It's 1999 and Albanian refugees have been pouring from war-torn Kosovo. A group of children materializes, swarming McDonald and other airmen, looking to thumb-wrestle for a soda or peddle $1 pieces of gum. Suddenly, a Turkish teenager watching from a distance pounces on an Albanian child. Airmen aren't allowed to intervene, and McDonald, about 24 at the time, watches powerless as the teenager beats the child, dragging him behind a corner.
He enters the rabbit hole. What happened to the kid? Did he lose his vision? Did he have broken bones? Sometimes positive thoughts put up a fight against the bad ones. Perhaps a church person or a doctor found the child and treated him? But more often than not, the good thoughts lose.
Due to the Air Force base, there's no shortage of veterans in Minot, where they make up nearly a tenth of the city's about 48,000 residents. The American Legion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and AMVETS all have chapters in town. But this doesn't necessarily translate into a tight-knit, multigenerational veteran community.
At Charlie's Main Street Cafe, you might see airmen in camouflage uniforms seated at one of the green upholstered booths, digging into a blueberry pie or wolfing down a hot beef sandwich. Veterans, on the other hand, don't wear uniforms, and many won't make their military history known.
In rural areas, 1 in 3 veterans isn't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup.
This means that former servicemen like McDonald can feel utterly isolated, even in a military town. The VA, of course, provides robust mental health services, including at the local clinic, a one-story building next door to a Little Caesars. But in rural areas, more than a third of all veterans aren't enrolled in VA health care, making it less likely they will be screened for depression as part of a routine checkup. For many who, like McDonald, suffered no service-related physical disabilities or injuries upon being discharged, receiving care through the VA isn't always the first option, especially if they have good private insurance.
"Once a service member leaves the service, there is nothing that overtly compels them to have contact with the VA," says Jeffrey Smith, an associate professor of history at the University of Hawaii Hilo who has studied military suicides. This makes it challenging for the VA to flag veterans who may be at risk. People sometimes think that "there's some kind of magic list with all the veterans, and that if we called all of them they wouldn't kill themselves," says Carl LoFaro, a suicide prevention social worker at the VA. "That's not really, unfortunately, how it works."
Historically, veterans clubs played a key role in suicide prevention, albeit not an explicitly defined one. Men sitting at the bar counter would suddenly spill out their guts in booze-fueled catharses, sharing harrowing war stories for the first time. But these days, mostly aging Vietnam veterans meet at vets clubs, a TV sometimes playing a black-and-white movie in the background. It can be hard for younger vets to feel welcome.
"We're having trouble recruiting new members," says Tammy VanWinkle, the head of the American Veterans' Minot chapter. This means that younger veterans, who research shows are more likely to commit suicide than older cohorts, aren't receiving the same informal peer support as their elders.
In this context, intervening before it's too late is akin to a crapshoot, especially in rural areas. Some groups like Forward Flag, a veteran nonprofit in New Mexico (it also has operations in Tennessee), have developed their own methods to ferret out former military members. There, volunteers drive a rusty Bluebird Wanderlodge bus deep into remote locales like the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, and, once there, set up on well-trafficked parking lots. If they're lucky, a veteran's inquisitive grandmother or aunt will stop by and, later on, return with the veteran, opening up the possibility volunteers may identify signs of depression and direct them to mental health services.
In Minot, McDonald couldn't find the kind of peer support that would pull him out of the rabbit hole. A call with the ND Cares Coalition in Bismarck, a state-sponsored initiative that seeks to improve veteran-related services, finally brought him fresh answers. Someone, it turns out, was working on developing the sort of help he desperately needed.
The VA has been trying something new to make a dent in veteran suicide — make veterans themselves the first line of defense.
Nathaniel Mohatt, a research psychologist, stood in a conference room in front of a dozen veterans in Kalispell, Montana. It was early 2018 and he'd just flown with a team of experts from the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, an interstate agency based in Boulder, Colorado. They had one goal: persuade the men to become the first line of defense against veteran suicide in northwest Montana.
Mohatt, a soft-spoken man with well-kept hair and tortoiseshell-rimmed glasses, knew a thing or two about rural veterans. In the 2010s, he'd worked on a mental health initiative targeting National Guardsmen in Kansas, and he'd studied ways rural primary care could better address suicide risks. In his years in the field, he'd noticed there weren't any structured, comprehensive programs in rural America. Rather, existing initiatives tended to be one-off, often led by counties' public health departments or by community behavioral health centers.
This observation led him and his colleagues at the VA-affiliated Rocky Mountain Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center for Suicide Prevention to develop a new approach. What if veterans were the ones doing suicide prevention, as opposed to experts in lab coats? After all, it'd long been documented that veterans were more likely to open up to one of their own.
But to get the VA to fund the new initiative, called Together With Veterans, he would need to ground it in solid evidence. So, Mohatt set out to find successful programs for inspiration. After rummaging through the academic literature, he found three. The first one was in Arizona, where the White Mountain Apache Tribe trained law enforcement, EMTs and community leaders to recognize warning signs of suicide, put together awareness campaigns and taught coping skills to at-risk youths. It managed to cut suicide rates by more than 38%. Then there was the Air Force, which worked to normalize help-seeking and reduce stigma around suicide.
But even more promising was the third initiative, which targeted a broad slice of the population, and not just subsets. In Germany, the Nuremberg Alliance Against Depression had taught 2,000 priests, teachers, pharmacists, policemen and other community facilitators how to identify people with depression. It'd achieved a 24% reduction in suicide attempts and completed suicides, and inspired the European Alliance Against Depression, an international nonprofit that brought the model to Chile and Australia.
"It's worked with native populations, it's worked in Europe, it's worked with the Air Force," Mohatt thought. What if rural veterans could be trained to deliver the same kind of intervention in their communities?
The suicide prevention center contracted with the Western Interstate Commission to design a program drawing on these efforts. Now, the researchers needed to test out their idea. After scouring suicide and population data, Mohatt's team identified four communities to try it on. One of them was in the Kalispell region, whose high concentration of veterans and high suicide rates made it an ideal candidate.
But the veterans gathered in the conference room in northwest Montana weren't biting. They sat squarely in their chairs, their arms crossed as a lunch of sandwiches, chips and cookies arranged on a table laid untouched. "It was like talking to a silent room," says Mohatt.
At the end of a 40-minute presentation, the team asked a simple question. "Do you want this in your community?" Suddenly, the atmosphere in the room changed. The veterans had been given a choice — this program wouldn't be imposed on them unless they wanted to participate. Slowly, the veterans started weighing in on Mohatt's idea. "They started eating our food," he says.
For a year, Western Interstate Commission representatives flew in from Denver to craft a plan alongside the veterans. "While we were rolling the wheel down the road, we were inventing it," says L.D. Gross, a veteran involved in the effort. They set the main goals for the grassroots organization: reduce the stigma attached to seeking help; promote gun safety; provide suicide prevention training — including to primary care providers; and link veterans to suicide hotlines and mental health centers. Now named the Veterans Coalition of Northwest Montana, the group would receive a $100,000 grant from the VA spread over three years. It would be on its own after that.
Once organized, the veterans moved fast. They put up two big billboards on either end of Kalispell, showing a casket draped with an American flag, the words "NO MORE SUICIDE" superimposed on it, as well as the phone number to a crisis helpline. They got trained to teach "Question, Persuade, and Refer," a program focused on discerning warning signs of suicide. Invariably wearing military baseball caps, they became fixtures at local gun shows, giving away gun locks — firearms are the method of choice for veterans committing suicide — and leaflets.
It's too early to say whether these actions have made a dent in suicides, Mohatt says, in part because it takes two years for statistics on suicide deaths to trickle down to national databases. But there have been encouraging signs. Since 2019, the coalition has delivered QPR training to 432 people, including in vets homes and farming communities. It had 10,000 people attend its events and, crucially, helped 731 veterans access housing, receive food assistance or get health care. This is an important metric because veterans enrolled in the VA are less likely to commit suicide.
Some benefits might not be easily measured but feel equally important. After Gross and two other veterans finished teaching a QPR course at an American Legion post on the Flathead Indian Reservation, two old farmers in overalls stood up to speak. They'd lost five family members to suicide, all veterans, they said, tears streaming down their faces. "You can run into some pretty emotional stuff," Gross says. Soon after, the veterans got a call from the post. Could they organize another class?
Back in Minot, McDonald hopped on a phone call in late 2020 with a consultant for Together With Veterans. The program was expanding to dozens of communities across the country. Maybe McDonald could start the first chapter in North Dakota?
The model made sense to McDonald. "I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else," he says. So, in January last year, he started reaching out to local veteran groups and nonprofits, hoping to recruit volunteers to help him set up the nonprofit.
But things didn't go as planned. His efforts got little traction, which he chalks up in part to a perceived lack of legitimacy. "I failed miserably," McDonald says. In the summer, however, he gave it another try, reaching out again. He'd quit his job at Home Depot and started a new position as an outreach specialist for disabled veterans, in addition to studying for a master's degree in mental health counseling. This time, he received positive feedback.
He joined forces with a female veteran who agreed to take on the paperwork, and in the fall, the chapter held its first meeting at the local post of Veteran of Foreign Wars. After reading about the event in the Minot Daily News, about 15 people showed up, most having no idea what the meeting was really about, McDonald remembers. "That brought out a mixed crowd." One participant had lost her brother, a veteran, to suicide in another state two days before and couldn't immediately be with her family. The group was the only source of healing she could find at the time.
"I've always noticed that veterans can talk to veterans easier than they can talk to anyone else."
McDonald felt unsure about the initiative. How, for instance, would he go about reaching veterans removed from society, those who elect to live on farms surrounded by dirt roads, dozens of miles away from the nearest city? His plan was for the group to team up with a San Diego-based nonprofit to build bunk beds for kids. Perhaps a carpenter living in a rural area would hear about the workshops and get Bob, his veteran neighbor, to lend a hand and nail a few planks. Bob would show up and find a community ready to welcome him with open arms. Perhaps the dark thoughts would go away then. Perhaps his life would be saved.
Still, McDonald had mixed feelings about being the face of this effort. How could he talk about saving veterans when he'd come so close to losing himself? "This is my first time admitting this publicly," he wrote on the group's Facebook page in September 2021. "I've kinda felt like a fraud putting together a non-profit that focuses on rural veteran suicide, knowing how close I was just a year ago." But, he continued, "This organization matters to me, veterans' matter to me, YOUR LIFE MATTERS TO ME!!!!!"
A dozen people emerge from the biting cold and file into a spacious conference room inside the Ward County Administration Building in Minot, a rotund edifice with sleek glass panels. The emblems for the five military branches hang on a black wall, bathed in white light. The Minot chapter of Together With Veterans has been scrupulously following a 187-page toolkit developed by the VA for local groups. This evening, they're tackling phase two of a five-step plan: a SWOT analysis — the acronym stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats — of their community.
Ten fresh boxes of Papa John's pizza are stacked on a filing cabinet. The smell of hot, melted cheese fills the room. "Through this process, you guys are helping shape what this organization looks like," McDonald, wearing a cornflower blue polo shirt and a beige baseball cap, tells participants in a pep talk. They're mostly men, veterans ranging in age from mid-30s to late 70s. Some, sporting druid-like gray beards, resolutely prop up their elbows on one of four tables arranged in a rectangle. Others sit at a distance, coats still on. Some won't open their mouth once during the two-hour meeting, as though worried they may break a vow of silence.
Soon, among those willing to talk, the comments pour in. There are the long, depressing winters, says one. Surely that's a weakness. Old veterans have a hard time going grocery shopping, says another. A sexagenarian with a well-trimmed beard chimes in. "Does everybody in the community know that there is a veteran suicide issue?" An Iraq vet in a black hoodie emblazoned with an American flag holds up his smartphone and notes that there's no dedicated website for Together With Veterans. How is that for brand recognition? And by the way, how do we reach younger vets who don't read the local paper?
A man in a green sports jacket and brown boots notes another hurdle: How do we reach veterans with PTSD, who may steer away from big events? How about we do it in an open space, suggests someone. Green Jacket remarks drily that this leaves the group a 60-day window in the summer to organize meets, referring to the interminable North Dakota winters.
By the time the meeting is over, it's apparent the chapter has a lot on its plate. The group isn't even sure about the scale of the issue. When I point out to McDonald that only one veteran committed suicide in the county last year, according to provisional data provided by the North Dakota Health Department, he smirks. This number, he says "seems very, very low." But perhaps it doesn't matter if only one veteran in the whole county is saved. At the very least, veterans who didn't know each other six months ago have banded together, their eyes set on a larger goal than themselves, the despair they may experience at times receding in the depths.
McDonald knows what he's talking about. In the past months he has started meeting with a counselor, talking about his PTSD. Things are finally looking up. The sense of meaning that had eluded him all these years is slowly coming back, in no small part thanks to his involvement with the chapter. "It's a little self-serving, building this nonprofit itself," he says. "I get to accomplish what I need to accomplish for myself." Perhaps he's saved a life already.
Where to get help:
The Department of Veterans Affairs maintains a hotline for veterans in crisis that operates 24 hours a day.
Call 1-800-273-8255 and press 1. Online, visit veteranscrisisline.net/get-help/chat, or send a text message to 838255.
This story appears in the May issue of Deseret Magazine. Learn more about how to subscribe.
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Journal of Integrative Medicine ›› 2019, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (5): 338-343.doi: 10.1016/j.joim.2019.04.007
Assessing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) is a proven method to estimate the safety of medicines. The ADRs to herbal medicines in Australia (and by inference, the safety of herbal medicines in Australia) remain unknown. This study examines spontaneous ADR cases to four of the most popular herbs in Australia from 2000 to 2015: echinacea (Echinacea purpurea), valerian (Valeriana officinalis), black cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba).
ADRs of echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo reported to the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) between 2000 and 2015 were obtained from the TGA database. Data were collated and analysed according to age, sex, severity, type of ADR and body system affected. Statistics were calculated using GraphPad Prism software.
Most ADRs were mild or moderate. However, every herbal medicine was associated with life-threatening ADRs. In each life-threatening case, the herbal medicine was taken concomitantly with prescription medications. Black cohosh was associated with a significant number of severe ADRs (30.3% of the total), with 39.4% of these ADRs being associated with abnormal hepatic function, hepatitis or hepatotoxicity.
This study highlights the lack of public awareness with regard to herb–drug interactions, since most of the severe ADRs involved a herb–drug interaction.
Key words: Herbal medicine, Adverse drug reaction, Actaea racemosa, Echinacea purpurea, Ginkgo biloba, Valeriana officinalis
Claire L. Hoban, Roger W. Byard, Ian F. Musgrave. Analysis of spontaneous adverse drug reactions to echinacea, valerian, black cohosh and ginkgo in Australia from 2000 to 2015. Journal of Integrative Medicine, 2019, 17(5): 338-343.
URL: http://www.jcimjournal.com/EN/10.1016/j.joim.2019.04.007
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N.Y. / Region|No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway
No Vehicles, but Plenty of People on Broadway
By DAVID W. DUNLAP MAY 24, 2009
Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. Traffic was diverted to Seventh Avenue. Credit Hiroko Masuike for The New York Times
Paul Ziemer and Pikkam So traveled to Times Square on Sunday from their home in Inwood, at the northern tip of Manhattan, and allowed their 14-month-old son, Benjamin, to do what few New Yorkers have ever done:
Walk safely right down the center of Broadway in the middle of the day.
On Sunday, the Bloomberg administration put a plan into effect to reduce traffic congestion in Midtown by closing two sections of Broadway to vehicles, from 47th to 42nd Streets and 35th to 33rd Streets. The idea is to eliminate the crosscurrents Broadway traffic creates on nearby avenues.
However, rather than suddenly apply a single tourniquet to the great diagonal limb of Broadway, officials closed it piecemeal throughout the afternoon and into the evening, more or less coordinating the project with a street fair on Seventh Avenue. Department of Transportation crews painted lane markers, hung new signs and adjusted traffic signals from Herald Square to Duffy Square, while pedestrians mobbed the sidewalks around them.
Because Broadway — like nature — abhors a vacuum, it took no coaching whatsoever to encourage the crowds to spill off the sidewalks and into the newly empty traffic lanes.
Mr. Ziemer and Ms. So made a point of coming to see a vehicle-free Broadway. They did not sound disappointed. "I've lived here for 15 years," Mr. Ziemer said, "and this was only closed for New Year's Eve" — not typically the best time for a stroll with a baby.
Ms. So said, "I like the experience because now I don't feel like I'm competing with cars."
One block away, Lev Teshler, from Kew Gardens, Queens, also found himself drawn to the middle of the street. "From my point of view, it's great," he said, "because I don't have to drive here."
And sure enough, a contrary opinion came from a cabdriver, Ben Stevens, who was caught in the vortex at Seventh Avenue and 45th Street. He did not mince words when asked his opinion of the closing.
Crowds clog Broadway in Times Square after the city began closing sections of the street. At right, traffic is diverted to Eighth Avenue. Credit John Marshall Mantel for The New York Times
"Nobody likes it," he said. "See the traffic? I hate it."
It is probably safe to say that the new traffic program, known formally as "Green Light for Midtown," will not get its real test until Tuesday, the first business day after the Memorial Day weekend.
Janette Sadik-Khan, the city's transportation commissioner, carefully noted the chance that some tinkering might result from that experience.
"It's an important first step to ease traffic and sidewalk congestion and create safe, attractive spaces that are good for business," she said. "But it's a work in progress, and we'll be monitoring the area closely during the initial adjustment period."
Though it sounds paradoxical to try to improve traffic flow by closing parts of a traffic artery, the transportation agency has its reasons. Vehicles are being banned where Broadway crosses Seventh Avenue (downtown-bound) and Avenue of the Americas (uptown-bound), like tracks in a switchyard. The hope is that this will improve the traffic flow on both avenues.
The remnants of Broadway on the affected blocks will become pedestrian plazas.
Seven bus lines that run downtown along Broadway — the M6, M7, M10, M20, M27, M30 and M104 — will be rerouted to Seventh Avenue on Monday. All of the crosstown streets will remain open.
Shortly before 8 p.m., the last vehicles passed down Broadway at 47th Street — a police van, a taxi and several pedicabs. City employees then placed eight orange barrels across Broadway, prompting a flurry of honking from vehicles and forceful whistling from the police officers who were waving traffic to the side.
"It's amazing how quickly people materialize on the streets when you close them off," said Ms. Sadik-Khan, as she watched pedestrians drift onto Broadway.
The sudden shift was a surprise to Alex Dzh, 23, a pedicab driver, who seemed bewildered by the orange barrels adorned with "Do not enter" signs. "Ten minutes ago, it was open," he said. "Now it's closed. I don't know what happened."
A. G. Sulzberger contributed reporting.
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Times Square via Broadway? Not Anymore. MAY 25, 2009


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Peyton Manning's Papa John's robbed during Broncos game
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Manning purchased 21 of the popular pizza franchises last year and has appeared in commercials for the restaurant.
It was not clear if the accused robbers knew that the timing of their stickup was during the middle of the football game, but Jackson said the suspects may have committed other robberies on Sunday night as well.
The suspects were described as wearing hoodies, gloves and masks during the robbery.
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Overview of the CESSMA
The CESSMA – Centre d'études en sciences sociales sur les mondes africains, américains et asiatiques (Centre for social sciences studies on the African, American and Asian worlds) – is a joint research unit. It was created in 2014 under the triple tutelage of : the University Paris Diderot, the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INALCO) (National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations) and the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) (the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development).
On 1 January 2018, the Centre comprised 56 academics and research fellows, and 80 doctoral students.
1. The originality of the Centre's scientific project
The Centre was created with the aim to analyse the historical and spatial configurations of the dynamics of development and globalisation in the so-called countries of the "South". One of the key components of the project is a questioning of Worlds, the diversity, universality, or on the contrary, the specificity of development issues and the effects of globalisation. They are viewed as processes that are not only governed by economic logic but fully include its social, cultural and political aspects, and are hence historically constructed and situated processes.
The Centre capitalizes on its dual legacy of development studies (for researchers from the IRD and the former SEDET) and the tradition of area studies (INALCO).
The Centre's founding principles are :
Interdisciplinarity. The following social science disciplines are represented : history, geography, anthropology, sociology, economics, urban studies and political science.
Frequentation of four regional areas : the Africas, the Americas, the Maghreb and the Middle East, and the Asian worlds. All the researchers assiduously conduct fieldwork in the countries they are working on, speak the languages spoken in those countries, and dialogue with their scientific communities (including in the form of joint publications).
Comparitism. Scientific life is organized around four transversal thematic axes : 1) Norms, circulations, actors ; 2) Urban production, policies and practices ; 3) Work, finance and globalization ; 4) Construction and usage of knowledge. The CESSMA conducts interdisciplinary research programmes, which are deployed in a comparative manner throughout the countries of the South.
The CESSMA is the only research Centre in France to simultaneously :
be clearly focused on development studies (the Global South) ;
adopt a generalist approach in terms of its research themes ;
associate international comparative research programmes with thorough area studies ;
adopt an interdisciplinary approach, in particular by associating history with research on the present.
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House and Senate Seek to Save Net Radio
By Sherwin Siy
Senator Wyden, joined by Senator Brownback, today introduced a bill designed to nullify the Copyright Royalty Board's recent ruling, which raises music licensing fees precipitously and threatens to put a lot of webcasters out of business.
The bill, called the "Internet Radio Equality Act of 2007," first throws out the Board's rulings from this year. Second, the bill changes the standard by which the Board sets fees, making it more like the standard used to set rates for satellite radio services. The bill then temporarily sets the rate at either a third of a cent per hour of music per listener, or 7.5% of the webcaster's revenue. That's the (much lower) rate that satellite radio pays. The Copyright Royalty Board will set rates under the new standard after 2010.
Third, the bill lets noncommercial broadcasters pay lower rates for their webcasts of sound recordings. Currently, the law lets noncommercial broadcasters pay a statutory licensing fee to songwriters and visual artists, but not to record labels. A temporary fix was introduced in 2002, but expired in 2004. The proposed bill sets a temporary rate for these sound recordings at a 5% increase over the 2004 levels, applied retroactively to 2005 and lasting through until 2012. If noncommercial webcasters have already paid the labels more than they would have under this fee in the meantime, that money is credited against future payments.
Last week, Representatives Inslee and Manzullo introduced a similar bill in the House. The current incarnation of the House bill also requires a reports from three different bodies (the NTIA, the FCC, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) on how Internet radio licensing fees affect the marketplace.
The resources mentioned by Alex do a good job of explaining this in further detail.


Jerry Seinfeld Regrets Romantic Undertone in 'Bee Movie'
Jessica Marchese
On Jimmy Fallon's "The Tonight Show," Jerry Seinfeld reflected on and apologized for the seemingly romantic relationship between a bee and a woman.
Not kidding. The comedian straight up said the suggestive nature of the relationship between Barry B. Benson and Vanessa was "inappropriate for children." Interesting, considering how even the film itself points out the absurdity of their dynamic.
The movie has been widely memed since its release in 2007, and t-shirts made with the entire script printed on the front. But the weird fantasies Barry has in the movie including Vanessa hint towards something more than just friendship.
"The bee seems to have a thing for the girl, and we don't really want to pursue that as an idea in children's entertainment." Jerry Seinfeld
It also doesn't help that Barry comes between Vanessa and her boyfriend, making him paranoid that she's leaving him for a bee. Not sure what was going on in the writer's room that day. And from this past weekend's interview, neither does Seinfeld.
The comment raises questions about the film's cult popularity. The movie's premise is weird to begin with. But even writer Spike Feresten noted that "an interspecies love affair" isn't something they wanted to sell to prison. Yet, I'm sure most kids don't know who Ray Liotta is and he's in the movie for some reason.
Perhaps it was difficult for the writer's to create a platonic friendship between Barry and Vanessa on paper. It speaks more to the fact that most times, screenwriters only put women in positions to be desired or sought after.
Though Vanessa own hers own business, it does cater to Barry's interests and his main purpose of pollinating. She is what grounds Barry, as a friend should, but there's no distinct line she draws to derail Barry's delusions.
I think this is why the writers got "carried away" with their team-up. Ultimately they decided on what would make the story even more absurd and whimsical. Unfortunately, under the scrutiny of modern critics, the dynamic did not age well.
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British PM Johnson warns England not to relax after coronavirus lockdown ends
Pedestrians walk near a billboard displaying a Manchester City Council message about the national lockdown restrictions, on Nov 26, 2020. PHOTO: AFP
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LONDON (BLOOMBERG) - Prime Minister Boris Johnson warned of "long months ahead" in the fight against coronavirus, as his government put most of England into the highest two tiers of new restrictions when a lockdown lifts next week.
London will be placed in tier 2, avoiding the toughest rules from Dec 2 and allowing pubs, restaurants and bars to open - but restricting alcohol to being served as part of a meal.
Cities including Birmingham and Manchester were placed in the toughest tier 3, in which pubs and restaurants must close except for takeaway. Households will not be allowed to mix indoors in either tier.
"What we want to avoid is relaxing now too much, you know, taking our foot off the throat of the beast now," Johnson said in a televised press conference Thursday (Nov 26). "There is a substantial relaxation across all tiers but we're not abandoning the fight yet, of course not, because we still, as I say, have long months ahead."
The regional three-tier system is tougher than before England entered a four-week partial lockdown this month. Ministers want to make sure they have some control of the virus's spread before people are allowed a further five-day relaxation of the rules during the Christmas holidays.
Christmas risks
And even then, Johnson's scientific advisers warned people not to take risks and to avoid endangering their elderly relatives.
"Would I encourage someone to hug and kiss their elderly relatives? No, I would not," England's Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty said at the press conference. Don't hug a relative "if you want them to survive to be hugged again," he warned.
Johnson's government is trying to balance the risks of the virus again getting out of control with the need to support an economy going through its worst slump in 300 years.
Virus cases have surged across the UK in the fall, and the prime minister's scientific advisers are trying to chart a course that prevents the state-run National Health Service from being overwhelmed.
But the premier also faces a looming rebellion from members of his own Conservative Party angry about the restrictions imposed on their districts.
Influential Tory MP Graham Brady said he will oppose the new measures when they are put to a vote in Parliament next week.
'Too authoritarian'
"The policies have been far too authoritarian," he told the BBC on Thursday. "There has got to be a real danger that if these restrictions aren't lifted very, very soon there will be a lot of businesses that simply won't reopen."
Some 41% of England - or 23 million people - will be in tier 3, including large swathes of the northeast, northwest, and the Midlands. Bristol, in the southwest, and the southeast county of Kent are also included.
London to be placed in second highest Covid-19 risk category
England will end Covid-19 lockdown with stricter tiered system
Another 57% of England, or 32 million people, will be in tier 2, including much of southern England and the northwest region of Liverpool which has pioneered mass testing. Only Cornwall, the Isle of Wight and the Isles of Scilly are in the lowest tier 1.
Johnson said he wants other parts of the country to "replicate" Liverpool's success with testing, pledging to roll out the system to all tier 3 areas as fast as possible. He also suggested the goal is a system that allows people more freedom if they can show they don't have coronavirus.
'Untried'
"Testing on this scale is untried, but in due course if it works, where people test negative it also may be possible for families and communities to be released from certain restrictions," he said.
Under the new rules, the general requirement for people to stay home will end, and shops, gyms and hairdressers will reopen. But in all areas, people will be urged to continue to work from home if they can.
The announcement triggered an immediate push back from the hospitality industry, 98% of which is covered by the top two tiers in England, according to trade body UKHospitality. That will wipe out an estimated £7.8 billion of trading compared to last year if the restrictions last all of December, it said.
"We still have not seen any evidence that hospitality venues -- which have invested great time effort and money to making their spaces Covid-secure -- are a problem,"
UKHospitality Chief Executive Kate Nicholls said in a statement. The new system is a "huge blow" and "it seems unfair and arbitrary that hospitality is being dealt such a harsh hand," she said.
'Destroying lives'
The threat to business angered Tory MPs who had lobbied ministers to keep their areas out of the highest tiers.
The coronavirus restrictions are "destroying lives and livelihoods," Conservative MP Richard Drax said in a statement. "We need a new strategy based on common sense, not fear and more fear."
Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the government will review which region is in each tier on Dec 16, based on infection rates and pressures on the National Health Service, and then every week after that.
Johnson said he's "convinced" that with a vaccine on the way, "by April things genuinely will be much much better." But Chief Scientific Officer Patrick Vallance injected a note of caution, warning that while three different vaccines have recently revealed positive trial results, they still need regulatory approval.
"This is going to take months into spring, before we start to get significant degrees of vaccination to create protection," he said.


The Pitt News • February 14, 2021 • https://pittnews.com/article/163419/blogs/the-pitt-prescription-my-experience-getting-the-moderna-covid-19-vaccine/
The Pitt Prescription | My experience getting the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine
The Pitt Prescription is a biweekly blog where student pharmacist and senior staff writer Elizabeth Donnelly provides tips on how to stay healthy in college. This edition was reviewed by Karen S. Pater, Pharm.D, CDCES, BCACP.
Shruti Talekar | Contributing Editor
The Pitt Prescription
By Elizabeth Donnelly, Senior Staff Writer
At the end of December, I received an email telling me that it was my turn to get vaccinated. I work as a pharmacy intern at UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, and we were the first hospital in the City to get and administer the COVID-19 vaccine.
I remember feeling incredibly grateful that I was one of the lucky health care workers who would receive the vaccine that early. I jumped at this opportunity and got my first dose scheduled for the following day — Dec. 29, 2020. I received the Moderna vaccine, which was granted Emergency Use Authorization by the Food and Drug Administration on Dec. 18, 2020.
[Read more about the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines here.]
I kept a detailed record of any sort of side effects I experienced and how I felt once I received my injection. I am one of the lucky people who didn't experience any intense side effects, which goes to show that the vaccine has a variable effect on different people's bodies. For any side effects experienced after vaccination, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention developed V-safe, a smartphone-based tool that provides individualized health check-ins and allows you to report any side effects you experienced.
I received the vaccine at 3:15 p.m. at the clinic at Children's Hospital. It was a quick process, taking about five minutes total from check-in to injection. Then, I was moved to the monitoring station, where chairs were set out 6 feet apart for those who received the vaccine. I got monitored for 15 minutes and then I was free to go. It is recommended to monitor everyone getting the vaccine for at least 15 minutes, just in case they experience any immediate adverse reactions. Anybody with a history of allergic reactions to vaccines should be monitored for 30 minutes to ensure their safety.
After receiving my vaccine and leaving the monitoring station, my arm was a bit sore at the injection site, but this went away after 30 minutes. Overall I felt fine the day of my vaccine, but my arm started to develop some soreness toward the evening, right before I went to sleep.
The next day, I woke up with very severe muscle soreness — worse than I had experienced with any other vaccination before. I took ibuprofen, which helped alleviate the soreness significantly. Later that same day, I started to experience a mild headache and my arm soreness returned. My arm also started to show a bit of an injection-site reaction, with redness, swelling and soreness. I felt pretty tired overall and took several naps throughout the day.
Two days after receiving the vaccine, my arm was still sore, but it was improving. Additionally, the redness at the injection site spread a little bit and my arm felt hard to the touch, as if there were something under my skin (there wasn't anything there, it was just the muscle hardening). I didn't experience any more headaches, but I still felt a bit more tired than usual throughout the day. None of these symptoms stopped me from functioning as I normally did.
On the third day after receiving the vaccine, all of my symptoms cleared up. My arm soreness, the redness and swelling at the injection site and the fatigue all went away, and I felt like I was completely back to normal. I didn't experience any other side effects for several days.
On Jan. 7, about a week after getting the vaccine, the redness and swelling at the injection site returned. It was more significant this time and it also itched — however, there was no pain. This stayed for about 24 hours and then disappeared again, and it never returned after this instance.
I have heard several people tell me they experienced something similar after getting the Moderna vaccine — a delayed immune response about a week after that included this redness, swelling and itchiness at the injection site. I spoke with my doctor and he told me that it was a normal immune response and nothing to be worried about. This redness is not considered a "rash" — it is considered a localized injection-site reaction. The difference between this type of reaction and a rash is that rashes often cover a larger portion of the body and would not be localized to where you received your vaccination. With vaccines, rashes are typically considered allergic reactions, whereas injection-site reactions are not.
It's important to note that side effects, like injection-site reactions, nausea, vomiting, etc. are not the same thing as allergic reactions, which usually consist of anaphylaxis. The CDC recommends that patients who are allergic to any ingredients in the vaccine or who had an allergic reaction to their first vaccine dose should not get the vaccine — or second dose — unless told otherwise by a doctor. If you experience side effects, that doesn't preclude you from getting the second dose of the vaccine.
Many people confuse their severe side effects with allergic reactions, but it is important that you understand the differences between the two so that you follow the vaccine dosing that is right for you.
I experienced pretty minor side effects with my first dose, but was told to be prepared for a worse reaction after my second immunization. It is theorized that people experience more/worse side effects after their second dose because there is an increased immune response after the second dose of the vaccine. Anecdotally, many of my peers have experienced chills, fever, headaches, body aches and extreme fatigue after their second doses. I, on the other hand, experienced not a single side effect my second time around other than a sore arm and some fatigue the day after my shot.
I received my second dose of the Moderna vaccine in the clinic at Children's Hospital on Jan. 27 at 1:30 p.m. I was prepared for the worst, but I really only had muscle soreness and fatigue the day after my shot. After getting a good night's sleep, I felt completely fine, and it's now been almost two weeks since I got that shot (at the time of writing), and I haven't experienced any other side effects, including the injection-site reactions I had the first time around.
It takes about two weeks after the second dose of either EUA COVID-19 vaccine for the vaccine to exert its maximum effects. Once you are vaccinated, it does not mean it's a free-for-all and that things can return back to normal. I know this is not what people want to hear, myself included, but the CDC recommends continuing to wear masks and social distancing even after you are fully vaccinated. With all of the new variants and the ever-evolving state of the virus, the CDC says experts need to understand more about the protection offered by the COVID-19 vaccines before they can recommend that people stop wearing masks or socially distancing.
Additionally, it remains unknown if getting vaccinated will prevent you from spreading the virus to other people, which means that even if you don't get sick yourself, you may still potentially give it to someone else and cause them to get sick. At the time of publication, the CDC is still recommending that everyone, including fully vaccinated individuals, wear a mask over their nose and mouth, keep a distance of at least 6 feet between themselves and others, avoid crowds, avoid poorly ventilated spaces and wash their hands often.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of the pandemic, I understand the frustration with having to continue to take these precautions. However, as of right now, they are the only way we can curb the spread of the virus and keep as many people alive and healthy as possible. I am fully vaccinated and I am extremely grateful, but I will continue to wear a mask and act in a safe manner.
Elizabeth writes primarily about self-care and pharmacological topics. You can reach her at [email protected].


2018-19 Men's Lacrosse News
2018-19 YEAR IN REVIEW: Men's Lacrosse
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team concluded the 2019 season with its eighth straight season of 10 wins or more. Additionally, seven were selected as All-Conference selections.
SAA Announces Winter/Spring 2019 All-Sportsmanship Teams
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced Friday the 2019 SAA Winter/Spring All-Sportsmanship Teams.
119 Student-Athletes Earn SAA Winter/Spring Academic Honor Roll Honors
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association (SAA) has announced the Winter/Spring 2019 Academic Honor Roll. 119 student-athletes earned the honor at The University of the South for the Easter Semester.
Stubits Garners All-Region Honorable Mention Nod with IMLCA
SEWANEE, Tenn. - Announced this week by the Intercollegiate Men's Lacrosse Coaches Association (IMLCA), face off specialist Ryan Stubits was selected as an All-South Region Honorable Mention after a career-breaking senior campaign.
Stubits Earns All-American Honor; Named to 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game
BALTIMORE - Announced by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA), Sewanee face off specialist Ryan Stubits has been honored as an All-American for NCAA Division III. In addition, he will play in the 2019 USILA Senior All Star Game on Friday evening.
Sewanee Athletics Celebrate Year-End Banquet
SEWANEE, Tenn. - In partnership with the Sewanee Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and the Sewanee Department of Athletics, the 2019 annual year-end banquet was held on Tuesday night inside the Fowler Center Fieldhouse.
Season Ends in SAA Semifinals for Men's Lacrosse
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its season come to an end in the semifinals of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament against the regular season champions in Rhodes, 13-7, Friday afternoon from Crain Field.
Men's Lacrosse Heads to Memphis for SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, after taking down Birmingham-Southern, 13-12, on April 20 at home in the first round game of the 2019 Southern Athletic Association Men's Lacrosse Tournament, will look to advance to its seventh straight SAA Tournament Championship game, but they will need to knock off the regular season Champions in Rhodes Friday night in Memphis.
Seven Men's Lacrosse Student-Athletes Selected to All-SAA Team
ATLANTA - Announced on Tuesday by the Southern Athletic Association, seven men's lacrosse student-athletes were selected to the All-SAA Men's Lacrosse Team.
SAA Spring Championships Sites, Brackets Announced
ATLANTA - Championship Week is upon us in the Southern Athletic Association. With the exception of baseball, who will garner a winner next weekend, nine sports will be hoisting conference tournament championships at the end of the week.
Men's Lacrosse Survives Upset Attempt in SAA First Round, Advances to Semifinals
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team, for the second straight game against Birmingham-Southern, needed overtime to secure the victory over the Panthers, 13-12, Saturday afternoon in a first round play-in game from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Men's Lacrosse Begins SAA Tourney Run Saturday
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team enters the 2019 SAA Men's Lacrosse Tournament as the number four seed, and they will play in a first round game on Saturday afternoon versus Birmingham-Southern.
Men's Lacrosse Drops Regular Season Finale, Will Host First Round Game
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team was unable to keep a first half lead, as the Tigers were downed by the Lynx of Rhodes College, 12-7, Sunday afternoon.
Men's Lacrosse Keeps Tourney Top Seed Chances Alive with Win at Hendrix
CONWAY, Ark. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team spoiled Senior Night at Hendrix with a 19-12 victory over the Warriors of Hendrix College Friday night at Young-Wise Memorial Stadium.
Late Goals by Vikings Spoil Attempted Comeback Bid for Men's Lacrosse
MOUNT BERRY, Ga. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a 12-6 halftime deficit by taking a 15-14 lead with 5:37 left in regulation, but two goals by Berry were enough to hold off the Tigers with a 16-15 loss, Saturday afternoon at Vahalia Stadium.
Thomas Lynde Selected as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - Announced on Monday by the Southern Athletic Association, Sewanee attacker Thomas Lynde has been chosen as the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week after his performance last week.
Senior Day Comeback Complete for Men's Lacrosse, Rallies to Overtime Win Over BSC
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a seven-goal fourth quarter to rally from a 9-6 halftime deficit to defeat Birmingham-Southern, 15-14, in overtime Sunday afternoon at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Men's Lacrosse Upended by Transylvania
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team saw its six-game winning streak come to an end on Friday evening at Historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium, as the Tigers were defeated by the Pioneers of Transylvania, 9-7.
Hayden Hunt Chosen as SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - The Southern Athletic Association has announced that Sewanee attacker Hayden Hunt has been chosen at the SAA Men's Lacrosse Offensive Player of the Week, the conference office announced on Monday.
Men's Lacrosse Returns to SAA Play with 20-4 Rout of Oglethorpe
ATLANTA - 10 different Tigers scored and 11 recorded points on the day as the Sewanee men's lacrosse team cruised to a 20-4 victory over Oglethorpe Saturday afternoon.
Pratt's Overtime Goal Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Sweep in Colorado
COLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse, for the second straight game, edged an opponent, but this time, the Tigers had to play overtime to win the contest. The Tigers defeated the Pride of Springfield College, 12-11, Thursday afternoon in a neutral-site game on the campus of Colorado College.
Men's Lacrosse Fends Off Colorado College in Offensive Explosion
COLORADO SPRINGS - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team recorded a 16-15 victory over the Colorado College Tigers in an offensive clinic between the two former Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) schools on Tuesday afternoon at Washburn Field.
Second Half Rally by Men's Lacrosse Leads to 11-6 Win in SAA Opener
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team overcame a first half deficit to defeat the Colonels of Centre College, 11-6, Saturday afternoon from historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Ryan Stubits Selected SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week
ATLANTA - Announced by the Southern Athletic Association on Monday afternoon, senior midfielder Ryan Stubits was named the SAA Men's Lacrosse Defensive Player of the Week after his performance in Sewanee's two wins this past week.
Men's Lacrosse Holds On for 9-8 Win Over Scranton in Sunday Matinee
SEWANEE, Tenn. - As the clocks sprung forward on Sunday morning, the weather also took a turn from freezing temperatures and many inches of rain to a 60-degree, spring-like day on the Cumberland Plateau for Sewanee men's lacrosse at historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. The Royals, despite a goal with 7:07 left in regulation, turned the ball over twice in the final minute to give the Tigers a 9-8 win.
Strong Second Half Lifts Men's Lacrosse to Win Versus Piedmont
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team used a 9-2 second half to take down the Lions of Piedmont, 16-5, Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium.
Fourth Quarter Charge by Kenyon Dooms Men's Lacrosse on the Road
GAMBIER, Ohio - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team suffered a 12-9 setback to the Lords of Kenyon College Sunday afternoon from McBride Field.
Watters Wins 100th Game, Men's Lacrosse Takes Care of Augustana in Home Opener
SEWANEE, Tenn. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team captured its first win of the 2019 season with a 16-5 victory over Augustana (Ill.) Wednesday night inside historic Hardee-McGee Field at Harris Stadium. With the win, head men's lacrosse coach Marty Watters won his 100th game with the program.
Men's Lacrosse Falters at Guilford
GREENSBORO, N.C. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team dropped a 13-8 decision to Guilford College on Sunday afternoon.
Men's Lacrosse Tripped Up in Season Opener at No. 13 Roanoke
SALEM, Va. - The Sewanee men's lacrosse team opened the season with No. 13 Roanoke on Friday. The Maroons took the contest, 17-7, from Kerr Stadium.


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"Panda" is the debut single by American rapper Desiigner. The song premiered on 15 December 2015. It was released for digital download on the iTunes Store as a single. Before being re-released on 23 February 2016. The song was written by Desiigner and its producer Menace. "Panda" was heavily sampled by Desiigner's fellow GOOD Music label-mate and founder Kanye West. For "Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 2", a song on West's seventh studio album The Life of Pablo. It inspired a number of remixes. The single topped the US Billboard Hot 100 at the end of April 2016. An official video was released on 10 May 2016. The song has been nominated for best hip-hop video at the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards.
Sidney Royel Selby III (born 3 May 1997). Known professionally as Desiigner. Is an American hip hop recording artist from Brooklyn, New York. He rose to prominence after the release of his debut single "Panda". Which later reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100. In February 2016, rapper and producer Kanye West (who sampled "Panda" for his seventh album The Life of Pablo). Announced Desiigner's signing to his GOOD Music imprint, under the aegis of Def Jam Recordings.
On May 5, 2016, producer Mike Dean announced that he would be serving as the executive producer for Desiigner's upcoming debut studio album. On May 24, Desiigner announced that the title to his upcoming debut album would be called The Life of Desiigner. In June 2016, XXL magazine revealed their annual "Freshmen Class" for 2016, and Desiigner was included on the list with nine other new artists. In June 2016, "Champions" was released as the lead single from the GOOD Music's upcoming compilation album, Cruel Winter. Desiigner made a guest appearance on this track, alongside his label-mate Kanye West, and other rappers such as Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo.
In the same month, Desiigner made his US television debut, when he performed his single, "Panda" at the 2016's BET Awards. On 26 June 2016, Desiigner released his first full-length mixtape, titled New English on Tidal, following a live premiere of the mixtape on 22 June. In July 2016, American pop singer Demi Lovato brought out Desiigner at her concert in New York. On 21 July 2016, Desiigner premiered the track, called "Tiimmy Turner", which was released as a single on iTunes the next day. Desiigner appeared as a special guest on the Netflix series Bill Nye Saves the World.
Artist: Desiigner
Title: Panda (Explicit)
Album: New English
Title: Zombie Walk
Studio album
The Life of Desiigner (Release date TBA, Label: GOOD, Def Jam).
New English (2016 Label: GOOD, Def Jam).
As lead artist
"Outlet" (2017 Album: N/A), "Tiimmy Turner" (2016). "Champions" (with Kanye West, Gucci Mane, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, Travis Scott, Yo Gotti and Quavo) (2016) and "Panda" (2015).
"Strapped & Ready" (Rah Smooth, Money and Loopy) (2016 Non-album single). "Finesse" (Jim Jones featuring Rich Homie Quan, ASAP Ferg) (2016 Album The Kitchen). "On the Low" (Phresher) (2016 Non-album single). "Danny DeVito" (Phresher featuring Rowdy Rebel) (2016 Non-album single). "Gucci Snakes" (Tyga) (2016 Album TBA). "Circles" (Pusha T featuring Ty Dolla $ign and Desiigner) (2016 Album King Push).
"Pt. 2" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). "Freestyle 4" Kanye West (2016 Album The Life of Pablo). "Back in My Ways" Young King & Mekado (2016 non-album single) and "The Difference" Meek Mill & Quavo (2016 Album DC4).
(2017) Grammy Awards – Best Rap Performance ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) WatsUp TV Africa Music Video Awards – WatsUp TV Viewers Choice Award ("Panda") Won. (2016) Teen Choice Awards – Choice Music: R&B/Hip-Hop Song – ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards – Best New Artist & Best Hip-Hop Video (Himself) Nominated. (2016) BET Hip Hop Awards – Best Hip Hop Video ("Panda"). People's Champ Award ("Panda") and Best New Hip Hop Artist (Himself) Nominated. (2016) MTV Video Music Awards Japan – Best Hip Hop Video ("Panda") Nominated. (2016) American Music Awards – Video of the Year ("Panda") & Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Song ("Panda") Nominated.


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As we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon.
Anthony Hill
As we head into August, the long-awaited release of the brand new iPhone 13 is on the horizon. While the global chip shortage is still causing manufacturing challenges for many companies across industries, Apple still seems to be un-phased and is expected to announce new smartphones in September.
So what's the big hype about the new iPhone 13?
LTPO displays with 120Hz refresh rates for Pro model displays
Improved 5G modem
Faster A15 Bionic chip
Improved ultrawide lens on the Pro models
Touch ID in the display
Smaller notch
Note: 120Hz LTPO displays are the next generation of LCD screens. They have been implemented in digital devices like gaming consoles and televisions for years now. This means that the iPhone 13 will be able to display a higher refresh rate with less ghosting than ever before.
In general, these displays have a higher contrast ratio because they are more capable of displaying deep blacks and whites without distortion or compromise. This means that the user experience is much more immersive than it would be on a standard LCD screen.
Will the new iPhone 13 be more expensive?
Some analysts predict that the iPhone 13 might be a little more expensive than the previous generation, but overall, we think Apple will keep the existing price range of $699, $799, $999, and $1,099, respectively.
There is a really good video from Matt Talks Tech which summarizes all the new features and release date worth checking out. See video above.
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Samsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced. Check them out!
Samsung had their Unpacked Event today, and several new devices were announced and demoed. The highlighted gadgets were the Galaxy Z Fold 3, Galaxy Z Flip 3, Galaxy Buds 2, Galaxy Watch 4, and new S Pens specifically designed for the Z Fold 3.
No, we did not attend the event in person. However, we did watch the keynote presentation. The overall event was pretty good, but, some parts were underwhelming. I guess that's to be expected nowadays with virtual events?
The guys over at Unbox Therapy did an awesome job showcasing the new devices they received for review. Check out the video above if you want an unbiased unboxing of all Samsung devices unveiled today.
Electric planes were once thought to be a futuristic pipe-dream, however, they will become part of mainstream air travel sooner than you think.
Airlines have always been so dependent on the price of oil, but if we switch to electric planes, they will be less susceptible to changes in fuel prices. Electric planes have been in development for more than a decade now, but they're finally reaching an age where they could be practical for commercial use.
What is an Electric Plane?
Electric planes are not to be confused with their gas-powered counterparts and are instead powered by batteries or fuel cells that power the electric motors. They offer a variety of benefits over gas-powered planes, such as reduced noise pollution, zero emissions at take-off and landing, and much longer flight times.
Benefits of Electric Planes
Electric planes have several advantages over gas-powered planes such as:
They're quieter and much cheaper to operate, with no need for oil changes or fickle jet engine parts.
Since electric planes are powered by electricity, the engines are quieter and they don't produce greenhouse gases as traditional aircraft do. They also don't use a propeller which means less noise pollution for the environment in general.
Traditional aircraft create so much turbulence that it causes them to have an unpleasant ride for passengers. However, electric planes produce very little turbulence which means it gives passengers a smoother ride and a better experience overall.
Airports will also be able to take advantage of this technology because it will lower their operating costs due to electric planes being more efficient in terms of fuel consumption.
The only downside for the passengers is that the battery life in these planes would be much shorter than traditional planes. However, that may not be a downside at all since it could mean cheaper and more frequent flights for passengers.
Currently, research is being undertaken into what it would take to make them mainstream, including estimates of when the first flight may occur.
Wendover created a very interesting video making the case for electric planes to go mainstream. Definitely worth check it out above!
Check out some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies ever made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future.
Theo Quarters
In the genre of science fiction, there are a lot of films that were made over the years all claiming to be the best. Not many were scientifically accurate if you understand the basic laws of physics.
I know most of us aren't physicists like Mr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. However, I'm sure, while we were being entertained we could not help but wonder, "This looks cool and all, but, can this happen?" There are certain things you see in a Sci-fi movie and are amazed and wish it was real. Then there are other things you truly hope you're not alive to even witness.
Joe Scott compiled some of the most accurate Sci-Fi movies made that could become part of our world in the near or distant future. Here's the list:
While some of us are still waiting for the day when some of these technological developments come true, I'm sure we can all agree Sci-Fi movies capture the human imagination in ways that were once thought to be magic.
So which movies are your favorite and the most accurate? If you're in the mood for something interesting to watch should definitely check out some of these sci-fi movies if you haven't already!
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